The Roominghouse Madrigals
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The Roominghouse Madrigals

Early Selected Poems 1946-1966

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Roominghouse Madrigals

Early Selected Poems 1946-1966

About this book

“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”—Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author

“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”—Leonard Cohen, songwriter

The Roominghouse Madrigals is a selection of poetry from Charles Bukowski's early work. It shows a slightly softer side to the beloved barfly.

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Information

Publisher
Ecco
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780876857328
eBook ISBN
9780061877421
Subtopic
Classics

Table of Contents

Foreword
22,000 Dollars in 3 Months
On Seeing an Old Civil War Painting…
What to Do with Contributor’s Copies?
Brave Bull
It’s Not Who Lived Here
O, We Are the Outcasts
Poem for My 43rd Birthday
The Genius of the Crowd
4:30 A.M.
The Simplicity of Everything in Viet Nam
The Night They Took Whitey
The Japanese Wife
Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs
The Loser
On a Night You Don’t Sleep
An Empire of Coins
All I Know
On Going Back to the Street…
Anthony
Layover
The Dogs of Egypt
Old Man, Dead in a Room
Love Is a Piece of Paper Torn to Bits
Big Bastard with a Sword
About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
Not Quite So Soon
Counsel
I Wait in the White Rain
Breakout
I Cannot Stand Tears
Horse on Fire
Mother and Son
The Day I Kicked Away a Bankroll
The Dogs
Imbecile Night
A Kind of Lecture...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. 22,000 Dollars In 3 Months
  6. On Seeing An Old Civil War Painting...
  7. What to Do with Contributor's Copies?
  8. Brave Bull
  9. It's Not Who Lived Here
  10. O, We Are the Outcasts
  11. Poem for My 43rd Birthday
  12. The Genius Of The Crowd
  13. 4:30 A.M.
  14. The Simplicity of Everything in Viet Nam
  15. The Night They Took Whitey
  16. The Japanese Wife
  17. Sundays Kill More Men Than Bombs
  18. The Loser
  19. On a Night You Don't Sleep
  20. An Empire of Coins
  21. All I Know
  22. On Going Back to the Street...
  23. Anthony
  24. Layover
  25. The Dogs of Egypt
  26. Old Man, Dead in a Room
  27. Love Is a Piece of Paper Torn to Bits
  28. Big Bastard with a Sword
  29. About My Very Tortured Friend, Peter
  30. Not Quite So Soon
  31. Counsel
  32. I Wait in the White Rain
  33. Breakout
  34. I Cannot Stand Tears
  35. Horse on Fire
  36. Mother and Son
  37. The Day I Kicked Away a Bankroll
  38. The Dogs
  39. Imbecile Night
  40. A Kind of Lecture...
  41. The Gift
  42. Object Lesson
  43. Goldfish
  44. Sleep
  45. Hello, Willie Shoemaker
  46. The Literary Life
  47. Countryside
  48. Death Wants More Death
  49. Eat
  50. 10 Lions and the End of the World
  51. The Blackbirds Are Rough Today
  52. A Word on the Quick and Modern Poem
  53. Seahorse
  54. I Have Lived in England
  55. Farewell, Foolish Objects
  56. A Report Upon the Consumption of Myself
  57. Fleg
  58. Interviewed by a Guggenheim Recipient
  59. Very
  60. The Look:
  61. One Night Stand
  62. Poem to a Most Affectionate Lady
  63. Parts of an Opera, Parts of a Guitar...
  64. Letter from the North
  65. The Best Way to Get Famous Is to Run Away
  66. The Kings Are Gone
  67. Reprieve and Admixture
  68. The Swans Walk My Brain...
  69. The End
  70. A Farewell Thing While Breathing
  71. Sad-Eyed Mules of Men
  72. Dear Friend
  73. A Conversation on Morality...
  74. Soiree
  75. Notations from a Muddled Indolence
  76. Nothing Subtle
  77. I Don't Need a Bedsheet with Slits for Eyes...
  78. 86'd
  79. The Ants
  80. Suicide
  81. 3:30 A.M. Conversation
  82. Cows in Art Class
  83. Practice
  84. I Kneel
  85. Freedom: The Unmolested Eagle of Myself
  86. Singing is Fire
  87. The Sun Wields Mercy
  88. On the Failure of a Poet
  89. The Beast
  90. A Rat Rises
  91. Pansies
  92. The Man with the Hot Nose
  93. Hangover and Sick Leave
  94. Mercy, Wherever You Are...
  95. It's Nothing to Laugh About
  96. 35 Seconds
  97. Regard Me
  98. With Vengeance Like a Tiger Crawls
  99. Itch, Come and Gone
  100. This
  101. 2 Outside, As Bones Break in My Kitchen
  102. Saying Goodbye to Love
  103. You Smoke a Cigarette
  104. Friendly Advice to a Lot of Young Men
  105. Everything
  106. ...American Express, Athens, Greece
  107. One Hundred and Ninety-Nine Pounds...
  108. I Write This Upon the Last Drink's Hammer
  109. Poem for Liz
  110. A Nice Place
  111. Insomnia
  112. Wrong Number
  113. When the Berry Bush Dies...
  114. Face While Shaving
  115. 9 Rings
  116. Somebody Always Breaking My Dainty Solitude...
  117. Thank God for Alleys
  118. The Millionaire
  119. Dow Jones: Down
  120. As I Lay Dying
  121. A Minor Impulse to Complain
  122. Buffalo Bill
  123. Experience
  124. I Am Visited by an Editor and a Poet
  125. The Mexican Girls
  126. The New Place
  127. Conversation in a Cheap Room
  128. I Was Born to Hustle Roses Down the Avenues of the Dead
  129. Winter Comes to a Lot of Places in August
  130. Bring Down the Beams
  131. Reunion
  132. Fragile!
  133. I Am with the Roots of Flowers
  134. Monday Beach, Cold Day
  135. The High-Rise of the New World
  136. The Gypsies Near Del Mar
  137. 6 A.M.
  138. A Trick to Dull Our Bleeding
  139. Rose, Rose
  140. Spain Sits Like a Hidden Flower in My Coffeepot
  141. Thermometer
  142. Eaten by Butterflies
  143. Destroying Beauty
  144. About the Author
  145. By Charles Bukowski
  146. Copyright
  147. About the Publisher